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its the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. im alisyn camerota. >> im victor blackwell. good to be with you. for the first time we are hearing what appears to be dispatch audio about a child trapped in the room with the uvalde shooter during the attack. now, cnn has not been able to confirm this recording first reported by abc news. >> you have a child on the line. the child is in the room full of victims. >> it is unclear what time that audio came in, but the texas public safety director...

we will be playing country music over the place even if you are not a fan of country music, it is memorial day and patriotic. >> todd: it puts you in the mood to honor america but most importantly honor those who paid the ultimate price that we can enjoy today and everyday in the land of the free and of course, that the home of the brave. this is definitely the home of the brave. with that, a lot of you traveling will see a lot. a holiday crisis, gas prices and flights being canceled d...

happened here on tuesday, and im here at a makeshift memorial in the town square in view yauld. it has just been teaming with people coming to pay their respects. people coming from all over texas, really, all over the country, to give gifts -- i saw a woman who was a teacher who brought a cart full of stuffed animals for the families coming to pay their respects to lay at each individual cross that was put here for each individual person murdered, and that is 21 people. 19 children, o...

it honors the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice defending the country. here is a quick history lesson. in 185 the civil war came to an end. but not without devastating american families. over 00,000 men killed in the bloodbath. grieving mothers and wives decorated the fields with wreets and flags. decoration day was established in 188 which would later become memorial day. it wasnt associated with the anniversary of any particular battle. it was for all of them. at the firs...

18-year-old who walked into a classroom and murdered in cold blood more than 20 people, including 19 innocent children. its unbearable news for many of us, me included. the country is broken. something is wrong here. there is something in our culture thats rotting. we all know something is wrong. fixing it will be hard. i want to be straight with you. the america my kids are growing up in is not the america from three decades agree i grew up in. and guns have nothing to do with why its...

>> reporter: in that crucial time, survivors inside both classrooms made desperate calls to 9-1-1. >> she identified herself and whispered she is in room 112. at 12:10, she called back and room 12 guised multiple are dead. 12:13, she called again on the phone. at 12:16, she called back and said there is eight to nine students alive. >> minutes later, a student called. >> reporter: student/child called back, was told to stay on the line and be very quiet. told 911 he shot the door. appr...

you want to do, then sandy hook happened and i cared. high school was bad enough. >> now this. >> when students are shooting students, you know, thats not understandable, its not forgivable, but how can somebody look at a nine-year-old and shoot them in the face? how can somebody do that? how can somebody have the capability to do that? it angers me beyond comprehension, and i have a lot of displaced anger right now, don, i really do. its just displaced so i should shut up, but its jus...

means. but officers resisted as the massacre played out. meantime, vigils and memorials are giving families and the community a chance to grieve and of course, begin healing. but nothing will bring back the 21 people theyve lost. and were now hearing for the first time from the mother of the gunman, salvador ramos. >> translator: i have no words. i have no words to say. i dont know what he was thinking. he had his reasons for doing what did he and please dont judge him. i only want the...

even though he was firing shots outside for some 12 minutes, there are so many unanswered questions. here is what we do know. 11:28 a.m. central time the suspect crashed his truck into a ditch near the school. he exited the vehicle, fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m. the gunman entered the school through an unlocked door on the west side of the building. four minutes later, officers entered the school, received gunfire then retreated from the building as they calle...

out. our correspondents are covering every angle of the story, including our cnn teams on the ground in texas. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. >> without anyone initially trying to stop him. cnn national correspondent jason carroll is on the scene for us. jason, police revealed alarming new details as you well know as they face very serious questions right now about their response to the massacre....